I remember seeing the original Stepford Wives movie on TV back in the days when the networks did more made for TV movies. I also have the DVD of the screen version starring Matthew Broderick and Nicole Kidman.
What was going on in Stepford is also going on in Amway. In the movie the wives are controlled by their husbands who are always attending men’s club meetings and are ultimately controlled by one or two men who are the leaders. Depending on which movie you’re familiar with the women are either murdered and robots take their place or they have a computer disk inserted in their brain that controls them.
Either way the women - or keeping up with the times in the newer version which included a gay couple and zapped one man - become mindless submissive robots controlled by their husbands. Oh and the wives fawn all over their men with unnatural over the top devotion and dedication. Very much like zombies.
This is what I saw in the Amway cult.
Men’s club meetings? The Amway meetings were male oriented always led by a male cult leader. Some wives attended Amway meetings with their husbands. Many men were single and coming stag to the Amway meetings. Many married men came stag too after their wives became fed up with the mind control bullshit and losing money. Some meetings were just men only no women allowed. Who remembers the clubhouses we had when we were kids and the boys usually had a “girls keep out” sign hanging outside. Like that. These men only Amway meetings are where the cult leaders try to cause trouble in their downline’s marriages and destroy their relationships.
To become a Stepford ambot one must do whatever the scum sucking Amway upline demands. They have to say the things the upline wants to hear, wear the clothes the upline wants you to wear, eat the snacks the upline wants you to eat, buy the things upline wants you to buy, drop whatever you’re doing and rush to the upline’s side if they beckon, etc, etc.
I have to stop. Sometimes I find it really sickening to relive these memories but I know by writing them down and sharing the anguish I went through that I can help others.
Wives had to display this over the top zombie like devotion to their husbands. Just watch those Ken and Barbie Ambots stomping across the stage at Amway functions. Barbie might have a few words to say but mostly she stands there gazing adoringly at Warrior Ken.
I don’t know about the rest of you guys but my husband gets really nervous if I’m staring him down!
That’s what life is like once you sign up with Amway. Welcome to Stepford! Leave your brain at the door. You are now an ambot.
Wives of committed Ambots usually take one of two possible directions.
ReplyDeleteThe first: Become a Stepford Wife, totally devoted to your husband and his Amway religion, like a zombie.
The second: Reject the Amway bullshit completely, and tell your idiot husband, in no uncertain terms, that he has to give the damned thing up or get a divorce.
If a woman takes the first path, she might become one of those Barbie-doll wives at an Amway function, with a big stupid grin on her face as she looks adoringly at her man.
If she takes the second path, she may actually save her husband from a life of ruin and bankruptcy.
Anonymous - being the wife of an Ambot is watching your sweet, kind husband turn into an ugly nasty sneering Amway bastard. Watching his devotion to his family turn to worshipping the Great Amway God and the fucking assholes in the Amway upline. It is really fucking scary the control those Amway shitheads have with their brainwashing techniques.
DeleteMost women can wait it out because Ambots usually quit after a few months when they realized they got scammed by Amway and they won't make any money in this pyramid scheme.
And then there's some women who turn into zombies and good little Stepford Amford wives who get brainwashed by the bullshit how they're going to be rich and famous.
Sell the hope not the soap.
Fuck Amway!